> > On 8 May, 23:56, Pip <gingerblokeNOS...@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 8 May 2008 12:15:39 -0700 (PDT), DR

> >> <darren.blueban...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> >Nice.  I just lost mine on Tuesday; diabetes (somewhat ironic) leading
> >> >to kidney failure.  15 y/o Jack Russell, IIRC Eddie met him once.  I
> >> >still keep thinking I can hear the old dog padding about.

> >> That's a fucker, mate - the dog-shaped space, innit.  It'll be with
> >> you for a while, unless you fill it with another one.

> > Not entirely up to me; the parental units were the de facto keepers.
> > As I've said elsewhere, to a very dear friend, I can get another dog.
> > I can't get another Freebee (as such was his name, due to having been
> > one).  He may have been "just a dog", but he was just _my_ dog, and
> > for all he wasn't human, he was as much a person as any I've met, and
> > more intelligent than some...  Rest well, old friend.

> I hear that.  I've been there and I still think about ours every day.
> It's amazing how much it actually hurts.  But it sounds like you have good
> memories, and I'm sure the little git appreciated your obvious love and
> affection.